Forgiveness

 Forgiveness is the fact; rest all is fiction. Thus would I ideally like to summarise life. Why such philosophising? Is that your question? Well, July 7 happens to be the World Forgiveness Day, and our blog today would deal with this theme, forgiveness.

Yes, forgiving is a great virtue. Why? First and foremost, it proves that you do not take yourself too very seriously. The moment "I, me, my" becomes your obsession, your perspective itself is lost. Every minor matter then becomes an ego issue. Most often, in such a case, there is a danger of persecution complex, of imagining that every minor to major event is a plot against you personally. 

Well, most of the times, in real life, ninety-eight per cent people you meet do not even think of you even when you are very much present there, right in front of their eyes. That much self-obsessed the majority is. So they would not think even once of your feelings or your future. Their time pass matters, and the utmost.

 "Use-n-throw" is their mantra. If you are not useful to such, they would forget your very existence even when they pretended to treat you like the apple of their eyes a day before. Why waste your positivity on such? In other words, by forgiving such scum, you are forgetting all the dirt that can otherwise sully you and your own clean conscience, not to forget your peace of mind.

Sure, forgiveness teaches you humility, too. You realise that three fingers at least turn to your own self when you point a finger at others blaming them! You learn, moreover, to forgive yourself, too, for a minor trespass or two against your own principles. If, for example, you have decided that no cuss word would ever pass your lips, but you do so in a moment of blazing anger, you do not torment your conscience. Rather you learn to forgive yourself, too.

Oh, yes, forgiving is indeed important because other innocent people, too, have,  historically there is ample evidence, suffered atrocities. I always tell myself that it is indeed important to remember that the Holocaust survivors, always my ideals, are the most resilient, resurgent like the phoenix.

Does forgiving mean that anything goes? Well, I believe most sincerely that there is a justness in this wide wild world. There is a balance, too. I am a mere spec in that scheme. Yet the entire rhythm IS upset even when an atom in the design is disturbed, disrupted. In other words, harm, hurt an innocent person for small or big gains. The very pattern of whatever is good, perfect, ideal will listen to the just prayer of that chastity. 

And, yes, still more firmly I believe that there are crimes which must not be forgiven even by the Gods if they exist at all. As a human being, one obviously cannot forgive such mean viciousness-es. The best way is clean forget such wickedness-es as they and their doers are anyways beyond repair! Forgiveness is indeed the fact; the rest IS fiction, and hence what cannot be forgiven must just be forgotten!

Pratima@Forgiveness is divine, forgetting is beatific!